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...make sure they don't repeat Fox's mistake, say CBS execs. "We talk to our production teams throughout the season about what we think is appropriate," says Tony Petitti, executive vice president and executive producer for CBS Sports. For all games, the NFL also instructs security personnel and ticket-takers at entrances to prevent fans from coming into stadiums with obscene signs or clothing, says spokesman Brian McCarthy. They'll be doing the same on Sunday, but McCarthy cautions that an offensive T-shirt is difficult for a gatekeeper to spot if the fan walks through with other clothing...
...first glance, the raw numbers look good. Some 49% of last season's record 59 million lift-ticket buyers were women--up 5% from the 2004-05 season, according to the National Ski Areas Association. And the total dollar sales of female-related ski goods has grown 64% since the 2001-02 season, says the Leisure Trends Group, a research firm based in Boulder, Colo., that tracks outdoor sports...
Springsteen can gross as much as $1 million a day from live performances at invariably sold-out concert halls and stadiums. "There is no performer today who can sell more tickets than Bruce Springsteen," says Rock Promoter Bill Graham. The 15-month Born in the U.S.A. tour, which ended in October 1985, drew more than 5 million fans to 156 concerts in eleven countries, generating ticket sales of about $90 million. Springsteen's probable share: $50 million...
...Looking back at the last open G.O.P. race, over a year and half out from Election Day, the results are less shocking than the prospect of a Lieberman-Gephardt ticket, but they do tend to support the hypothesis that early polls aren't so much even popularity contests as trivia quizzes (The question being, "Have you ever heard of this person before...
Rumors swirled on the ticket line that protesters were being bussed in and festival-goers were being frisked. Neither occurred, but the credits to the Jan. 22 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Hounddog might as well have included the tag line: "Dakota Fanning was not harmed in the making of this movie." Fanning, 12, plays a victim of sexual abuse who finds comfort in Elvis Presley music in the film, which has been condemned by religious groups and child advocates as child pornography. Former child actors, like Alison Arngrim (Nellie from Little House on the Prairie) and Paul Peterson (Donna...